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Battle of Chapultepec
Battle of Chapultepec, 12–13 September 1847, Mexican–American War assault on Chapultepec Castle near Mexico City; Winfield Scott's 7,000 troops overcame Nicolás Bravo's ~800 defenders, and six cadets, the Niños Héroes, became a partly mythologized national symbol.
Battle of Chasiv Yar
Battle of Chasiv Yar (Битва за Часів Яр): 2023–2025 Russo-Ukrainian battle for the hilltop city 12 km west of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, begun April 2024; Russia claimed capture July 31, 2025, a claim Ukraine disputed.
Battle of Château-Thierry (1918)
Battle of Château-Thierry (1–4 June 1918), also called the defense of the Marne bridges: US 3rd Division and French 10th Colonial Division stopped the German Aisne offensive at the Marne, 80 km from Paris, then pushed the Germans back across the river.
Battle of Chausa
The Battle of Chausa (चौसा का युद्ध) was fought on 26 June 1539 near Buxar, Bihar, where Sher Khan decisively defeated Humayun and took the title Sher Shah.
Battle of Chelenqo
The Battle of Chelenqo was fought on 6 January 1887 between Negus Menelik of Shewa and Emir Abdullahi II of Harar, ending in a Shewan victory.
Battle of Chenggao
The Battle of Chenggao (成皋之战) was the decisive Chu–Han struggle for the fortress town of Chenggao, won by Liu Bang over Xiang Yu around 203 BC.
Battle of Chengpu
The Battle of Chengpu (城濮之战) was fought in 632 BC between Jin, allied with Qin, Qi, and Song, and a Chu-led coalition, ending in a decisive Jin victory that made Duke Wen of Jin hegemon.
Battle of Cheongsanri
The Battle of Cheongsanri (청산리 전투) was a 1920 battle in Manchuria where Korean independence armies under Kim Jwa-jin and Hong Beom-do fought Japanese forces.
Battle of Chesma
The Battle of Chesma was a naval battle of the Russo-Turkish War fought in July 1770 in the Aegean, where a Russian fleet destroyed the Ottoman fleet at anchor.
Battle of Chesme
The Battle of Chesme (Чесменское сражение) was a naval battle of the Russo-Turkish War fought on 5–7 July 1770 near Chios, where a Russian squadron under Count Aleksei Orlov destroyed the Ottoman fleet.
Battle of Chi Lang – Xuong Giang
The Battle of Chi Lang – Xuong Giang (Trận Chi Lăng – Xương Giang) was a 1427 victory of Le Loi's Lam Son forces that destroyed two Ming relief armies.
Battle of Chiang Mai (1776)
The Battle of Chiang Mai (1776) was the final engagement of the Burmese-Siamese War of 1775–76, in which a Burmese army under Thihapate recaptured Chiang Mai.
Battle of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga was a Civil War battle fought September 18–20, 1863, in northwest Georgia, where Braxton Bragg's Confederates defeated William Rosecrans's Union army.
Battle of Chilcheollyang
The Battle of Chilcheollyang (칠천량 해전) was a 1597 naval battle near Geoje Island in which the Japanese fleet almost annihilated the Joseon fleet under Won Gyun.
Battle of Chinhat
The Battle of Chinhat was a defeat of a British East India Company force by rebel troops under Barkat Ahmad on 30 June 1857, near Lucknow in Oudh.
Battle of Chinhoyi
The Battle of Chinhoyi, also called the Battle of Sinoia, was fought on April 28, 1966, near Chinhoyi, where seven ZANLA guerrillas died clashing with Rhodesian forces.
Battle of Chipyong-ni
The Battle of Chipyong-ni (지평리전투) was a Korean War battle fought February 13 to 15, 1951, where a surrounded US-French force repelled a much larger Chinese army.
Battle of Chochiwon
The Battle of Chochiwon (전의) was a July 1950 Korean War delaying action in which the U.S. 21st Infantry Regiment slowed advancing North Korean forces for three days.
Battle of Chongju
The Battle of Chongju, fought on 29–30 October 1950, saw the Australian 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, assault a dug-in North Korean force near Chongju, North Korea.
Battle of Chorrillos
The Battle of Chorrillos, also remembered in Peru as the Battle of San Juan, was a Chilean victory over Peru in the War of the Pacific on 13 January 1881.
Battle of Chosin Reservoir (장진호 전투)
Battle of Chosin Reservoir (장진호 전투, Battle of Lake Changjin), Korean War battle, 27 November to mid-December 1950: about 30,000 UN troops, mostly 1st Marine Division, broke out from encirclement by roughly 120,000 Chinese and evacuated via Hungnam.
Battle of Chotusitz
The Battle of Chotusitz was a battle of the War of the Austrian Succession in Bohemia on 17 May 1742, where Frederick II of Prussia defeated Prince Charles of Lorraine's Austrian army.
Battle of Chrysas
The Battle of Chrysas was an indecisive 392 BC engagement in central Sicily between Carthage under Mago and Dionysius I of Syracuse, ending in a negotiated peace.
Battle of Chudniv
The Battle of Chudniv (Cudnów) was fought near Chudniv, Ukraine, in 1660, when a Polish-Lithuanian and Tatar army forced a Russian army under Sheremetev to capitulate.
Battle of Chuisha
The Battle of Chuisha (垂沙之战) was a 301 BC defeat of Chu by a joint Qi, Han, and Wei army at Chuisha in present-day southwestern Henan, near the Bi River.
Battle of Chuncheon
The Battle of Chuncheon (춘천지구 전투) was a June 25–30, 1950 battle of the Korean War in which South Korea's 6th Division halted the North Korean advance.
Battle of Chungju
The Battle of Chungju, known in Korean as the Battle of Tangeumdae, was a 1592 Imjin War battle in which Konishi Yukinaga's Japanese army destroyed General Sin Rip's Joseon field army.
Battle of Chupas
The Battle of Chupas, fought on 16 September 1542 near Huamanga, Peru, ended the almagrista faction when Governor Cristóbal Vaca de Castro defeated Diego de Almagro el Mozo.
Battle of Churubusco
The Battle of Churubusco was a Mexican-American War engagement fought on August 20, 1847, at Convento de Churubusco near Mexico City, where U.S. forces under Winfield Scott secured a key victory.
Battle of Chuvash Cape
The Battle of Chuvash Cape was a 1582 battle on the Irtysh River where Yermak's Cossacks defeated Khan Kuchum's army, opening the way to his capital.